ORDER :

Bail petitioner, who is behind the bars since 30.3.2022, has approached this court in the instant proceedings filed under Section 439 Cr.PC, for grant of regular bail, in case FIR No. 46/22 dated 12.2.2022, registered at Police Station Sadar, District Una, Himachal Pradesh, under Sections 457, 380, 485, 201 and 120-B IPC.

2. Pursuant to order dated 18.10.2022, respondent-state has filed the status report. SI/IO Ajeet Singh, PS Una, has also come present with the records. Records perused and returned.

3. Close scrutiny of record/status report reveals that on 12.2.2022, police after having received information that locks put on the shutters of grocery shop in Jalhera, District Una, reached on the spot and found that apart from locks put on the shutter back wall of the shop was also broken. Complainant Devinder Nath Puri, who happens to be the proprietor of Ms. Puri Brother, Jalhera gave statement to the police under Section 154 CrPC, alleging therein that on 11.2.2022 at 8pm, he alongwith his brother Sanjeev Kumar and nephew Sahil after closing their shop came to Ghaluwal (Saloh), but on the next day, at 8.10am when they reached at their shop, locks put on the shutter were found